Magnon Straintronics to Control Spin-Wave Computation: Strain Reconfigurable Magnonic-Crystal Directional Coupler

The effect of electrical field control of the spin-wave spectrum in adjacent magnonic crystals stripes was investigated by micromagnetic simulation, microwave spectroscopy, and Brillouin light scattering (BLS). The electric-field-induced dipolar coupling between magnetic stripes leads to the formation of symmetric and antisymmetric collective modes in the spectra of propagating spin waves. In particular, the strain-induced variation of the spin-wave coupling length in the stripe, predicted by micromagnetic simulation and measured by BLS, show the possibility of application of a lateral array of magnonic crystals as tunable microwave directional couplers, power dividers, and spin-wave demultiplexers, which can be used simultaneously as an interconnection unit in reconfigurable magnonic networks.